It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning

Jamiroquai
Stillness In Time

It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the world and that because they could, Earth had to be a sphere.

Being a sphere, it therefore had to be a finite object, with a finite—that is, limited—surface area. With this awakening the ideas of world trade and related colonial proprietary rights were born.

L. Fletcher Prouty

We are turning with the earth so fast.
But it feels a lot slower

Julian Casablancas
Left & Right In the Dark

As The World Turns – Early 80s Opening Theme

And I’m trying to believe
In things that I don’t know

The turning of the world
The color of your soul

Goo Goo Dolls
Without You Here

If this world is turning too fast for your head
Just remember how bad times can roll instead
Guess I’ll have to search the space in my mind
For that stillness in time.

Oh, twisted
Under, sideways, down
I know you’re getting twisted
And you can’t come down

The Cars
Magic

When illusion spin her net
I’m never where I wanna be
And liberty, she pirouette
When I think that I am free

Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill

This Sun is a fake star
Wandering out there
mocking the sun kids

Ānemi
Sun Kids

We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We’re fated to pretend
To pretend

MGMT
Time to Pretend

Into this house we’re born,
Into this world we’re thrown

The Doors
Riders on the Storm

It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation.

Before Magellan’s time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was always more property “out there” over the horizon and that it was not essential that anyone think seriously about the ownership of land, particularly open land. This general idea ended with the return of the good ship Victoria.

L. Fletcher Prouty

You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire

America
Magic

There’s a man on the moon
And he says that he’s not coming down
But he’s thinking of you
every time the world spins around

Jesus Jones
Man on the Moon

Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.”

Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And therefore, as we set sail, we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

John F. Kennedy
September 12, 1962

A woman on the radio talks about revolution
when it’s already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about
you know it feels good to be alive

Jesus Jones
Right Here Right Now

It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise
Right there in front of everyone’s eyes
Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done

Bob Dylan
Murder Most Foul

I am waiting for the next big thing
Bring it on quick time to me

Jesus Jones
The Next Big Thing

Here it comes! Here it comes!
Here it comes! Here it Comes!
It’s adrenalin for me
That is waiting patiently

Jesus Jones
Chemical #1

Painful to me.
Pierce right through me.
Can’t you understand?

Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence

I saw the decade end, when it seemed
the world could change at the blink of an eye

Jesus Jones
Right Here Right Now

It Was Always Burning
Since the World’s Been Turning

Billy Joel
We Didn’t Start the Fire

I couldn’t tell you if it’s gonna change the world
But I hope to hell it’s gonna change me

Jesus Jones
The Next Big Thing

Using words you will find are strange
Mesmerized as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change

Pink Floyd
On the Turning Away

The heart of revolutionary faith, like any faith, is fire: ordinary material transformed into extraordinary form, quantities of warmth suddenly changing the quality of substance. If we do not know what fire is, we know what it does. It burns. It destroys life; but it also supports it as a source of heat, light, and—above all—fascination.

James H. Billington
Fire In The Minds Of Men